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Vince Cable: "I stood up in the House of Commons and said that while I had always been against tuition fees, I now wasn't. Or something"Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images

Hugo Rifkind

Published at 12:01AM, December 11 2010

Monday “Put it this way,” says David Cameron. “Some people think they
don’t like broccoli.”

I’m one of them, I say.

“Or so you think,” says David. “But if you tried it again, you might realise
that you love broccoli and were merely mistaken. And maybe tuition fees are
like that.”

George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander are there, too, nodding
eagerly. Nick says he never used to like broccoli, but now loves it. I’m not
convinced. I’ve never been in favour of tuition fees and never liked
broccoli, and that’s just that.